Pagination has one really helpful power that endless scrolling lacks: the ability to quickly jump to the end of the list, or (sometimes) the middle, etc. Not every application requires this, but I sometimes find endless scrolling to be truly irritating when I know I need to go deeply into the information and so end up scrolling... well, almost endlessly.

What do you do when you have a lot of things to display to the user, far more than can possibly fit on the screen? Paginate, naturally. There are plenty of other real world examples in this 2007 article, but I wouldn't bother. If you've seen one pagination scheme, you've seen them all. The...